msbelle - how about a trade?
Wash: I didn't think you were one for rituals and such. Mal: I'm not, but it'll keep the others busy for a while. No reason to concern them with what's to be done.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Aims - May 29, 2009 4:45:48 pm PDT #21972 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Barb - May 29, 2009 4:46:19 pm PDT #21973 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Well, I don't know if writers owe their publics anything, Barb, but I did kind of find Stephenie Meyers post-leak flounceoff kind of ungracious...
Well, that was just ridic, in my opinion. I don't blame her for being hacked that someone leaked her preciousssss, but the public flounce-off was just ridiculously unprofessional and high school drama queen.
That post, however, smacked of, "And while you're at it, get down on your knees and blow me with a smile on your face."
To paraphrase the divine Gaiman, "a writer ain't your bitch."
And the part about how having a fan rewrite your novel is the height of flattery just made me want to grind my teeth. Fan-fiction is one thing-- groovy, rock on, I just don't need to see it, for a variety of reasons, some of which are legal. But rewriting? NSM with the flattery.
sarameg - May 29, 2009 4:49:24 pm PDT #21974 of 30000
msbelle, you have my ear should you need it.
Amy - May 29, 2009 5:02:11 pm PDT #21975 of 30000
Because books.
msbelle, maybe a bath? Or earphones on and some really angry music to jump around to?
msbelle - May 29, 2009 5:05:42 pm PDT #21976 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
it's ok. he's watching tv and I'm on the computer. plus he's watching a cartoon where one of the characters is being a royal brat - the parallels are even clear to him.
sarameg - May 29, 2009 5:06:26 pm PDT #21977 of 30000
I'm watching Walk the Line on tv (I've seen it before,) and I know Roseanne Cash and her sibs weren't happy with how it portrayed their mom, but honestly, Viv comes off as someone he really did do wrong and not at all unsympathetic. I feel bad for her.
Sophia Brooks - May 29, 2009 5:09:20 pm PDT #21978 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was just telling my mom how bad I felt for Johnny Cash's first wife from that movie (I am watching, too). I mean, I love Johnny and June, but poor Vivian.
sarameg - May 29, 2009 5:15:06 pm PDT #21979 of 30000
Zactly.
Jesse - May 29, 2009 5:42:29 pm PDT #21980 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So, I'm going on this grad school alumni outing tomorrow, and now my friend who had also signed up is bailing. Because she "still has stuff to deal with in the new apartment." That they moved into a month ago. Annoying! I'll still go, but I was looking forward to seeing her.
DavidS - May 29, 2009 5:56:34 pm PDT #21981 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Suddenly, the often once-or-twice discussed Buffista Cat F2F has become feasible....
I am so there.
Having written a book, I can say that much of my stress over it was Writing What I Want vs. Writing What I Know They Want. Writing to your audience is pandering straight up. That's not the debt you owe. You write to satisfy your own standard first and foremost or else you're fucked. You write to please your idea of what a good book should be.